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[Mark Armendariz]

Personally, I'm a fan of SimpleHTMLDOM, 
http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/, which has a great interface, but 
uses string parsing instead of DOM.

I haven't had much experience with these others:
phpQuery:     http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/
Zend_Dom:   http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.dom.html
QueryPath:   http://querypath.org/
FluentDOM:  http://www.fluentdom.org/

That said, if you're trying to replace simple javascript functionality 
for anything besides parsing HTML, I might argue that you might not be 
doing enough javascript.  I don't know your client(s) / empoyer(s) / 
project(s), but I've found in the past 2+ years that I could do so much 
more in javascript and keep php in the back for the heavier lifting and 
data access.  The recent flourishing of interesting javascript-heavy 
sites has essentially guaranteed javascript is enabled on most 
browsers.  I recently released a javascript-heavy site that is accessed 
by tens of  thousands of non-technical people every day and there 
haven't been any complaints (besides the occasional javascript bug that 
buzzed past my tests).

Of course, that always depends on your market.  Accessibility is a 
serious js-heavy issue.  And some sites need to be js-light for 
backwards compatibility (banks and other such institutions come to 
mind).  But if those specific cases aren't in your way, I might 
recommend getting cozier with JS instead of trying to replace it with 
PHP.  It's not the toy language of the early 00's, but rather an 
advanced and fast front-end language that has finally grown into its 
potential - and arguably the most popular language in the world.

Mark

On 08/05/2011 06:39 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
> I was wondering what the current favorites are for PHP html DOM 
> manipulation are.
>
> I ran across one library which basically took all the JQuery DOM 
> functions and created PHP equivalents for them - so you can do things 
> like find all the elements of a certain tag class or type and replace 
> their html with something else.
>
> One thing I'd like to see this for is to re-write all those cool 
> lightbox style javascript codes into PHP code[so instead of the user 
> waiting for all the HTML to download, then waiting for a javascript 
> event to trigger to update the links from their old links to popup 
> links if they have the appropriate class  - the server can pre-process 
> the file and do those substitutions once and then cache the data.]
>
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